cliquish
Example Sentences
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Her school’s faculty is cliquish and unwelcoming, and Penny often draws the ire of a few women who see her as a threat.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2023
The agreement typified another problem in Food: a cliquish culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2020
Beyond this core pair, the characterizations are mostly flat: cliquish students, stuffy authority figures and clueless grown-ups.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2020
In 2015, after a number of departures, Fortune published an article in which former employees complained about a cliquish, “mean girls” corporate culture.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
The far smaller English community hangs together in a somewhat cliquish fashion, and possibly cherishes a latent grudge against the Americans for their paramount influence in island affairs.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
